Incendiary Circumstances
Incendiary means "capable of causing fire". It may also refer to: * Incendiary device, a device designed to cause fires * Incendiary ammunition, a projectile designed to set fire to a target * Incendiary (novel), ''Incendiary'' (novel), a novel by Chris Cleave * Incendiary (film), ''Incendiary'' (film), a 2008 film based on the Cleave novel * ''Incendiary: The Willingham Case'', a 2011 documentary film about the Cameron Todd Willingham arson murder case * Incendiary (band), a hardcore punk band from Long Island, New York See also

*Arson, a crime of willfully and maliciously setting fire to or charring property {{disambig ...
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Incendiary Device
Incendiary weapons, incendiary devices, incendiary munitions, or incendiary bombs are weapons designed to start fires or destroy sensitive equipment using fire (and sometimes used as anti-personnel weaponry), that use materials such as napalm, thermite, magnesium powder, chlorine trifluoride, or white phosphorus. Though colloquially often known as bombs, they are not explosives but in fact are designed to slow the process of chemical reactions and use ignition rather than detonation to start or maintain the reaction. Napalm for example, is petroleum especially thickened with certain chemicals into a 'gel' to slow, but not stop, combustion, releasing energy over a longer time than an explosive device. In the case of napalm, the gel adheres to surfaces and resists suppression. Pre-modern history A range of early thermal weapons were utilized by ancient, medieval/post-classical and early modern armies, including hot pitch, oil, resin, animal fat and other similar compounds. Subs ...
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